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Can anybody help me in sorting out a change to the IMDB script?

Please check this post: viewtopic.php?t=5114&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20

What I would need is: to modify the IMDB script to try to use the url stored in the file called movietitle.url (same directory as the video) as a searching keywork, then if no .url file is present show the input window as it does right now.

I think in general is a great idea to have the .url in the video directory also I would need this modification to e.g. update the movie rating. I noticed that if IMDB is queried with the specific movie URL (e.g. http:// http://www.imdb.com/235235235) IMDB goes straight to the selected movie without input requested, this allow for secure batch processing without risk of mistakes.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Regards

It appears no one in this forum cares about or supports the IMDB script...
That's a bit surprising, I would have expected IMDB to be one of the most popular scripts... oh well.

IMDb script is quite difficult to maintain :
- It is rather old, has been fixed a lot of times by a lot of persons, so the code is rather messy
- The site sends different results depending on your location, making some things difficult to get working correctly, and some bugs difficult to fix
- Results may vary depending on the movies, for example some time ago movies with a number ending by 9 had a difference in the page structure, for absolutely no reason.

Thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately, it doesn't help me with my problem (viewtopic.php?t=5565) but at least I better understand the difficulty.